New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-30
EEORETARY BALFOUH HEGIZATER
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DUBLIN. Sept. a9.-The action Of the branches
Of tho League in the suppressed districts On
Sunday has brought matters to q neat issue, They
utterly disregarded the proclamation suppress
Ing them. They met just as usual and expelled
tho police from their rooms wherever tho police
attempted to intrude. Fully ten thousand men,
bers of the National League by their meeting in
defiance Of the proclamation deliberately rendered
themselves Liable to prosecution. but nobody has
been prosecuted Mr.. Balfour must prosecute o.
become laughing stuck. Prosecution d just
what these men sought when they met on Sunday
and what they will seek when they meet nexs
Sunday. as they win again They are ready to
60 to jail in defence Of the rights of free speech
and free meeting. II Mr.. Balfour begins prose-
cutting he will I'LL up all his jails In no time,
and the work Of the National League will DO
going on just the samo as ever. He secs this
dilemma himself and he hesitates. So does tho
Coercionists' press, and 1t confcsses today that
Coercion is failure and must be amended when
Parliament meets. They are all now clamorng
for civil war. 1t was the only chance for them.
but 1t takes two to have war, and the Irish
people are determined not to be one Of the two.
They see they are bahing their enemies by thei1
present tactics, and they mean to stick to them.
You may look out for very interesting doings
within this next week or two II I am not mis-
informed, we are on the eve Of having o most
striking proof Of the efficiency which the peoples
organizations can maintain In spite Of Coercion
whenever the people only display resolute spirit.
hear that the great dispute on the Ponsonby
estate is likely to be settled on terms which will
mako 1t far and away the most important victory
yet scored for the Plan OF Campaign. The evio-
tons which were to have to come of to-day have
been postponed, and i know that the landlord
Is at the present moment parleying with The
tenants with view to accepting their terms
Tbs only thing likely to prevent settlement 10
the action of his fellow-landlords In Cox, whs
have been making him their scspcguat In this
struggle up to this. and who are now moving
Heaven and earth to keep him from backing
out Of it.
contrast to this attitude of Ponsonby is that
Of Lord Lansdcwne who is preparing TO carry OUT
the remainder Of the Ldggacurran evictions to-
morrow.
Perhaps the coolest and most atrocious specimen
of the policy of bloodshed yet is the murder
by emergency men on tho Coolgrancy estate in
County Wexford to-day. A gang Of these hired
bravos armed to the teeth, sailed forth to seize
tenants goods and cattle on distress warrants.
They had no police with them, and simply
prowled around like o band Of robbers. They
came to one farmhouse and the tenant and Q
small group Of friends met them at the gate.
struggle ensued, and the emergency men were
driven back. They thereupon fired fusilads
from their rifles and revolvers upon the tenant
and his friends, shooting one man dead and
wounding several others.
The inquest on the Mitchelstown victims is
developing sensational features. The officer second
in command of the police force yesterday got ON
the witness table and gave away the whole case
for the police. His evidence compromises the
chief officer In command, who, he swears, was in
@ state OF panic In the barracks, and grossly
transgressed the regulations of the code in sending
his men upstairs and leaving them by themselves
to fire as they pleased from the windows.
The moonlight outrage near Lisdoonvarna, out
Of which arose the murder Of Head Constable
Whelehan, now turns out to be, what we all
suspected it was from the beginning, o put up
job in order to furnish the Chief Secretary with
O counterblast to Mitehclstown on the evening
Of the debate in the House of Commons. This may
seem wild statement, but IL you knew tho
Intricate working Of the Castle system in Ireland
1t would not seem anything of the kind, and
will warrant before the trial Of the arrested men
Is over the statement will be thoroughly proven.
One of the arrested men-the man who got up
the whole affair-turns out TO be an informer,
and the prisoners solicitor declares he has no
doubt that this man planned the attack on the
land -grabber's house for the evening before tho
debate in collision with the police. OF course
the murder of the unfortunate head constabls
was not in the programme. That was an un.
foreseen contretemps due to the determined efforts
Of tho moonlighters to escape.
One of the Woodford men who defended
Saunderss farm against Lord Clanricardc's evict-
ing army has died in prison. The barbarous severity
Of Irish prison treatment preyed on his health and
unquestionably was the cause OF his death. His
parents were never told about his Illness Tho
first news they received Of anything being wrong
with him was the news Of his death.
I. z. GILL, NJ. p.